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Re: What good is Religion
There have been wars fought over numerous things. Religion, I do not believe, is the true impetus behind most wars attributed to religion. I believe a ruling body had some reason for wanting the war, and they used religion to get the people to support an otherwise unnecessary war. It is like Bush using possible terrorist threat to validate his war in Iraq. religion doesn't often instigate war, various ruling individuals do. Religion is just an easy method to gain unity among the people, and so various individuals have used it to promote their own agendas.
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Looking at you.
A religion by its self is nothing. The people in the religion are what makes it bad or good. A bad religion filled with good people will change to be a good religion.
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I think it may be impossible to have a well rounded opinion in youth. It takes years and experience in other cultures to come close to such a thing. Similarly, it is probably impossible to understand properly another belief system without direct exposure to people in that system when it is in a position of majority and oneself is in the position of minority, unless of course you lived the system and studied it thoroughly during that time.
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There is good and bad in most religions and the concept of religion in its self but I believe that religion as a whole is creating separations in the human race as much as race and color.
Well the problem with modern day religions is that they started no less than 1000 years ago, and back then people died at an early age. Now we have 100 times the science, and we got there without religion. More of Francis Bacon.
There are aspects which inspire goodness in people, but also aspects which inspire the worst sort of atrocities. Religion is at least as much a force for evil and violence as it is for good and peace. But the problems with religion are ultimately problems with human beings.
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All labels are arbitrary, to take -hh-'s staement one step further. Religion is only as powerful, weak, good, evil, etc. as the person using it to their ends.
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What good is Religion
PREGO
Oct 26th, 2006 05:38 PM
